Ronda Rousey Will Star in the Ronda Rousey Biopic, Because Who Else Could?

Jackie Robinson. World War II hero Audie Murphy. Howard Stern. The list of famous people who've starred in their own biopics is short and eclectic. And now the roster's getting a huge punch up from pro fighting's toughest woman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ronda Rousey is set portray herself in a film that will chronicle her rise to MMA superstardom.

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It's a good time to hold stock in Rousey. This past weekend, the MMA fighter went toe-to-toe with Brazil's Bethe Correia—a match she described as "my Rocky IV"—and bested her in 34 seconds. This was a year after Rousey took down UFC's Alexis Davis in a mere 16 seconds. What happens when she's given the standard 120-minute biopic runtime? We may all wind up with bloody noses.

Rousey is the rare athlete whose charm comes as naturally as a left hook. In interviews, she's a sweetheart and a laugh riot. On screen, she can hold her own against bulky male spotlight hogs. Her screen credits include Furious 7, Entourage, and The Expendables 3. Next year she'll star opposite Mark Wahlberg in the action movie Mile 22. Her untitled biopic, based on Rousey's own autobiography, My Fight/Your Fight, should test her dramatic strength. Because Rousey has quite the story; trained by her mother, AnnMaria De Mars, the first American to win the World Judo Championships, Rousey fought her way into the 2004 Olympic games in Athens. At 17, she was the youngest competitor. A decade later, she's a worldwide sensation in a male-dominated sports scene.

Details are sparse, but the report runs with the idea that Rousey isn't pulling a Babe Ruth (who merely costarred as himself in the 1942 Lou Gehrig-biopic The Pride of the Yankees) or a 50 Cent (who, like Eminem in 8 Mile, fictionalized his boyhood for Get Rich or Dye Tryin'). No, the fighter will tell her own story with her own spirit. She told THR that it was her agent who insisted that she could leverage the UFC success into a Hollywood career. He thought she could "be the female Rock." And yet, we're still waiting on The Rock's biopic. So maybe he'll catch up to Rousey one of these days.